Board of Directors and Advisory Board
The Reckoning Project is grateful to the following board members who ensure our work is executed to the highest international standard. Our board members also ensure that when human rights abuses are perpetrated they are communicated worldwide and justice is pursued.
Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors, comprised of an international team of professionals specializing in international law, human rights, and media, approves policies and bylaws and provides oversight for the activities of The Reckoning Project.
Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board is comprised of experts and professionals in relevant fields who share their expertise and insight with our staff.
Bonnie Weir
Senior lecturer and assistant dean for undergraduate education at the Jackson School of Global Affairs and founding co-director of the Program on Peace and Development at Yale University.
Carl Bildt
Co-chair of the European Council of Foreign Relations and former prime minister and foreign minister of Sweden.
Claus Kress
Chair for German and International Criminal Law and Director of the Institute of International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne.
Corinne Dufka
Former senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa Division with specialized expertise in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, and Guinea, and in charge of the organization's work in West Africa.
Gillian Tett
Columnist and editor-at-large US of the Financial Times. Writes a weekly column for FT, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues.
James Silk
Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights at Yale Law School and director of Yale Law School’s Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights.
Jeff Montgomery
Jeff is an experienced private equity and venture capital professional, having raised and invested $1.5 billion in European media/information, telecoms, and technology companies over the last 35 years. He has held board of director/trustee positions in more than 30 companies and six charitable organisations across 19 countries.
Kai Sauer
Ambassador of Finland to Germany, and the former Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Security Policy at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
Kenneth Roth
Attorney, human rights activist, writer, and former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch with numerous human rights investigative and advocacy missions around the world. Visiting Professor at the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs.
Linda Kinstler
Executive Editor of The Dial magazine, contributing writer for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine and for Jewish Currents, and author of Come to This Court and Cry.
Natacha Weiss
Field Coordinator for World Connect, specializing in development impact analysis with a focus on gender and displaced communities. Has carried out over 30 missions across Africa, Europe and South America with Refugees International and World Connect and is the founder of the "American Friends of the Bambi Homes Colombia."
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Ukrainian human rights lawyer and head of Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties, for which she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2023.
Philippe Sands
Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, author, and barrister with specialization in international law.
Richard Rogers
Executive Director of Climate Counsel, former Senior Legal Officer at the Appeals Chamber of the UN Tribunal for Yugoslavia, Principal Defender at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and Chief Legal System Monitor in Kosovo.
Serhii Plokhy
The Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University
Timothy Garton Ash
Author of European political writing on historical transformation, professor, and Guardian columnist
Timothy Snyder
Author, the Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University, and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
Wayne Jordash
Barrister with clients including governments, multilateral institutions, NGOs, corporations, and individuals. Founding partner of GRC and key expert in CoE’s business and human rights program.